To amortize a loan, use the table above as an example: 1  Note your starting loan balance: $20,000. 2  Figure out the payment (calculation shown on this page): $377.42. 3  Figure out the interest charge for each period â usually monthly (calculation shown on this page): $83.33 in the first month.
$104.3 million less in dividend payments after buying back shares. Apple now has 861.74 million shares outstanding, a significant drop from just one quarter ago when it had 892.55 million outstanding shares. The company's stock buyback program acquired 31.7 million shares in the March quarter, and will retire them.
For instance, Apple shares dropped nearly $11 on Monday, translating into a market cap loss of $10.3 billion that day -- far more than the $760 million loss in bond value over the past two months. Google's long-term debt totals just $3 billion, so bond market fluctuations aren't as meaningful to its enterprise value.